James M. McPherson
Praise for Battle Cry of Freedom
The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability
Financial Times
McPherson is wonderfully lucid... Above all, everything is in a living relationship with everything else ... Omitting nothing important, whether military, political or economic, he yet manages to make everything he ...
The New York Times
A distinguished contribution to American history ... He has succeeded brilliantly. He has written what will surely become the standard one-volume history of the great conflict which forged America as a united nation
Independent
The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability
Financial Times
McPherson is wonderfully lucid... Above all, everything is in a living relationship with everything else ... Omitting nothing important, whether military, political or economic, he yet manages to make everything he ...
The New York Times
A distinguished contribution to American history ... He has succeeded brilliantly. He has written what will surely become the standard one-volume history of the great conflict which forged America as a united nation
Independent
The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability
Financial Times
McPherson is wonderfully lucid... Above all, everything is in a living relationship with everything else ... Omitting nothing important, whether military, political or economic, he yet manages to make everything he ...
The New York Times
A distinguished contribution to American history ... He has succeeded brilliantly. He has written what will surely become the standard one-volume history of the great conflict which forged America as a united nation
Independent